Lupșa (Alba)

Lupșa
Wolfsdorf
Nagylupsa

Basic data

State :

Romania

Historical region :

Transylvania

Circle :

Alba

Coordinates :

46 ° 22 ' N , 23 ° 12' E Coordinates: 46 ° 22 '6 " N , 23 ° 12' 16" E

Time zone :

EET ( UTC +2)

Height :

516 m

Area :

103.60 km²

Residents :

3,052 (October 20, 2011)

Population density :

29 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

517410

Telephone code :

(+40) 02 58

License plate :

FROM

Structure and administration (as of 2016)

Community type :

local community

Structure :

Lupsa, Bârdeşti , Barzan , Curmatura , După Deal , Geamana , Hădărău , Holobani , Lazuri , Lunca , Manastire , Mărgaia , Musca , Parau-Carbunari , Piţiga , Poşogani , Sasa , Trifesti , Vai , Valea Holhorii , Valea Lupşii , Valea Şesii , Vința

Mayor :

Dănuț-Vasile Bârzan ( PSD )

Postal address :

Str. Principală, no. 1
loc. Lupșa, jud.Alba, RO – 517410

Website :

www.primarialupsa.ro

Lupșa ( German Wolfsdorf , Hungarian Nagylupsa or Lupsa ) is a Romanian municipality in the Alba district in Transylvania .

The place is also known by the Hungarian names Kislupsa , Felsőlupsa and Alsólupsa .

Geographical location

Location of the Lupşa municipality in the Alba district

The municipality of Lupşa is located in the north-western part of the Alba district, in the Arieş valley - a right tributary of the Mureş (Mieresch) - in western Transylvania. On the hills and mountainsides between the Muntele-Mare Mountains in the north and the Transylvanian Ore Mountains in the south, the municipality with its 23 settlements extends over an area of 10,360 hectares. At Drum național 75 , the place is 16 kilometers east of the city of Câmpeni (Topesdorf) ; the district capital Alba Iulia (Karlsburg) is located about 93 kilometers southeast of Lupșa. Lupșa is part of the historic Motzenland .

history

According to reports by JM Ackner (1856), C. Gooss (1876), S. Rákóczy (1906), I. Marțian (1920) and others, traces of gold panning and a settlement from Roman times have been found on site.

The place Lupșa - mentioned for the first time in 1366 under the name villa Lwpsa - was a Romanian serf village in the Middle Ages and belonged to Thorenburg County . In 1518 the place consisted of two parts: Felsőlupsa and Alsólupsa , the last being identical to Valea Lupșii . The Romanian landlord family Lupsai owned a manor here.

During the peasant uprising of 1784 there were clashes between the rebels around Horea , Cloşca and Crişan with the imperial troops in the area of the municipality . During the Romanian Revolution of 1848 , the region was the scene of fighting between the forces of Avram Iancu and units of the Hungarian Revolutionary Army .

The small railway Turda – Abrud (93 kilometers) running through the town was put into operation in 1912 and closed in 1998.

The main occupations of the population are cattle breeding, wood processing, mining and, to a limited extent, some agriculture.

population

At the 1850 census there were 4673 people in the area that is today the municipality. 4652 of them were Romanians and 21 Roma . The highest number of inhabitants (6119) was reached in 1941; since then the population has been falling steadily. In 2002, 3863 Romanians and four Roma were registered. The highest number of Hungarians (16) was counted in 1910 and that of Germans (10) in 1941. In the census of 1977 and 1992, one Ukrainian was registered.

Attractions

The monastery of Lupșa, one of the oldest Romanian monasteries in Transylvania, was first mentioned in 1429 and was the seat of a famous monastery school from 1611 to 1848. The church of the monastery of Sf. Mare Ierarh Nicolae , donated by the landlord Vladislav - with pronaos and coffered ceiling - was built in 1694. In the clapboard- covered stone hall church, the vestibule of which was built in 1810, the coffered ceiling was made by two Hungarian master carpenters from Colțeşti .
The village museum, founded in 1938 by the teacher Pamfilie Albu , has a collection of over 6000 exhibits that originate from the Motzenland.
The Romanian Orthodox Church Sf. Gheorghe (formerly a Greek Catholic ), built in 1421, rebuilt in the 19th century, is a listed building. The church has wall paintings in the Byzantine style.
Old farms with stables, water mills , in the Motzenland style .
The third highest peak in the Transylvanian Western Carpathians - the Muntele Mare (1826 m) - can be reached in a day's hike from Lupșa .